Chapter 110: The End of the Pyramid
"Xiao Wen, what should I do with this fish, there is no fishy smell?"
"Aunt Mu, I'll come. Wen Yanzhi took the fish in her hand and began to deal with it.
Soon......
"Xiao Wen, why is this dish diced unevenly?"
"Aunt Mu, let me come. β
"Xiao Wen, how much water should I put in this soup?"
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Gu Yanran, who was washing vegetables on the side, saw this scene and felt a little funny, where did Mu Cheng, who was cooking in an apron in the kitchen, still have the gentleness, dignity and atmosphere that he had just met, but there was more fireworks.
"Hey, I wanted to cook a meal for you when I saw you coming, but I didn't want to be clumsy. Mu Cheng looked helpless and looked at Wen Yanzhi with some embarrassment.
If it weren't for Gu Yanran hearing her words before, she really thought that what she said now was true.
Gu Yanran lowered his head and snickered on the side, "Aunt Mu, go and rest, I'll just come here." β
"Good, good. Mu Cheng looked at the figures of the two and quietly retreated, leaving space for the two.
"You know what. Gu Yanran took out the green pepper next to him and washed it, and handed it to Wen Yanzhi, as if it was not the first time for the two of them to tacitly understand.
"I still don't know Aunt Mu's temperament. Wen Yanzhi smiled faintly, "I haven't been here for a long time, she lives here alone, she eats alone, I used to cook a good meal for her every time I came back." β
"Aunt Mu...... She lives alone?" Gu Yanran seemed to remember that Mu Cheng told her before that she had no children.
Wen Yanzhi nodded, with some unknown emotions suppressed in his eyes, "I only know that the day before Aunt Mu's wedding, her fiancΓ© repented of her marriage and left with another woman." β
Gu Yanran was a little surprised, she always felt that Aunt Mu's kind of gorgeous woman should be pursued by many people, how could she be abandoned?"
"Since then, she has been alone and moved here from the East Side. β
"Didn't ...... again" Find someone to accompany her?
"Nope. Wen Yanzhi glanced out at Mu Cheng, who was sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, his eyes were sour, "You think so, you give everything you have to one person, desperate, but you don't want that person to make you lose a lot, will you gamble again?" Wen Yanzhi turned to look at Gu Yanran, with an unpredictable deep meaning in his eyes.
"I'm not going to look for someone who's going to make me lose a bet. Gu Yanran put the washed vegetables heavily in front of him, and there was a rare firmness in his eyes.
Wen Yanzhi's eyes were soft, "Yes, I won't let you lose." If it weren't for the inconvenience of his hands, he really wanted to rub her hair.
"Wen Yanzhi, cook well, what you think in your head all day long, say some strange things. Gu Yanran's face flushed, he lowered his head and didn't look at anything, so he took the bowl on the side and rushed it into the pool.
His appearance is very different from the previous him, and he is obviously the same as Wang Yanzhi
Personally, how can the personality be so different.
"Gu Yanran, that's an egg. Wen Yan didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.
Gu Yanran was stunned for a moment, looked at his hand, and was so frightened that he immediately turned off the water, the bowl in his hand was still the same bowl, but the egg was no longer the original egg, and the egg liquid was clear water, which was a little miserable.
"I ...... I ......" Gu Yanran was a little at a loss, "I want to make egg custard, so ...... Put some water. β
"That's not how it should be. Wen Yanzhi took the bowl in her hand, put it aside, took out two more eggs from the refrigerator and handed them to her, "Let's beat me two more." β
Gu Yanran held an egg in one hand, watching Wen Yanzhi quickly process the fish on the cutting board in his hand, he carefully slice the fish piece by piece and put it on the plate.
"What kind of fish are you going to make?" Gu Yanran looked at his meticulous sword skills, and was amazed, where did he look like a pampered young master now.
"Whatever you want to eat, I'll do it. Wen Yanzhi glanced at her for a long time.
"Aren't you all sliced, what else can you do? β
"You don't eat the fish because it has bones and spines, so I shave it first. Wen Yanzhi lowered his head and carefully shaved out the fish bones, not letting go of a single one.
Gu Yanran didn't expect him to say this, and the warmth was in her heart, and she suddenly felt that her nose was a little sour, and her eyes were a little moist.
She has never told others that she doesn't eat fish because she is troublesome because she thinks fish bones, Xu Yichen knows that he has slowly understood after getting along with each other in the past few years, but Wen Yanzhi is different, they have only known each other for a long time, and he remembers her little habits so clearly.
"I want to eat braised fish. Gu Yanran looked at Wen Yanzhi, who was shaving the fishbones, and his tone softened a lot, and he sounded a little coquettish.
"No, you have to eat lighter, the wounds on your face haven't healed completely, and try to avoid these soy sauces and heavy flavors. Of course, Wen Yanzhi could hear the difference in her tone just now, and she said softly unconsciously: "I'll make you steamed fish fillet, it's also delicious, okay?"
Gu Yanran nodded, his "okay" made people never have the idea of refusal.
"Do you still feel pain on your face?" he continued to lower his head and stir the sauce in.
Gu Yanran shook his head, and suddenly realized that he couldn't see at all, so he said, "It doesn't hurt, but it's a little itchy at night." β
"Fortunately, the weather is cold during this time, and it is not easy to sweat, so don't run around, when the wound is stained with sweat, it will be a little troublesome. β
"Wen Yanzhi, I'm not a three-year-old child, what are you running around!" Gu Yanran was a little unconvinced.
"Do you know?" Wen Yanzhi raised his head to look at her, "When I first met you, I felt that you were completely different from now, and now you are like the real you, with sadness and joy on your face. But in fact, I don't know why, the more I contact you, the more I think that you should just not be able to control your own kind of temperament, and you should have made a lot of trouble when you were a child.
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Gu Yanran's face was red when he said it, and it was a coincidence that he was right by him.
Her ears kept echoing what he said, and suddenly a voice came to her head, and she asked excitedly, "Do you remember?"
"What do you remember?" Wen Yanzhi knew the meaning of her words, but looking at her hands that were trembling slightly with excitement, the words that wanted to blurt out were swallowed back by him.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing. When Gu Yanran saw him say this, he knew that he had misunderstood again, and the light that had just flashed in his eyes dimmed. She thought he remembered her past, remembered what she used to be like.
"I'm going to get out of the pot, don't stand here, it's all the smell of oil smoke, and you can come in when it's ready." Wen Yanzhi looked at Gu Yanran, who was stunned next to him, and pushed her out halfway.
"Wait. Gu Yanran saw that his body was empty, and took an apron from the side, "I'll put it on for you." β
Wen Yanzhi bent his head, and when Gu Yanran saw this, he immediately stood on tiptoe and put the apron in for him.
Wen Yanzhi, who had originally lowered his head, suddenly stopped with a smile on his face.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yanran found that he had his head down and didn't get up for a long time.
"Nothing. He put on a smiling face again: "Okay, let's get out quickly." β
When Gu Yanran walked out, the smile on Wen Yanzhi's face disappeared.
He looked at Gu Yanran, who was getting farther and farther away, and there were some doubts in his eyes, whether it was because the things she said were true, or because of the things she said, as a listener, his brain also had a memory and reaction to it.
Because, just now, a scene came to his mind.
He was sure that he had never experienced it, but his words and deeds were very clear, not like he had imagined it.
In addition, he saw a woman in front of him, who was making the man in front of her lower his head, she was looking at his hair crown, and the movements of the two were no different from the movements of him and Gu Yanran just now.
He couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he knew that she was sweet to the man, and the man called her "Achu".
Achu ...... Liu Chupei.
Wen Yanzhi felt that he was a little confused at the moment, and he didn't know what was going on today, and strange pictures kept appearing in his mind.
He didn't care much about it originally, but the current situation made him feel that Gu Yanran's matter had to be investigated.
"Why did you come out?" Mu Cheng, who was basking in the sun, opened his eyes, looked at Gu Yanran who came out, and then looked at the figure in the kitchen.
"He chased me out and said he would call me when he was ready. Gu Yanran saw that there was a recliner next to her, so she sat down and lay down slowly, the soreness released from her waist made her close her eyes comfortably, "It's really comfortable here." β
She opened her eyes and looked at the cloudless sky, "In a few years, I will also buy such a courtyard in a sparsely populated place, plant flowers and grass every day, bask in the sun, read miscellaneous books, and I don't know how comfortable it is." β
"You're so young that you're starting to think about retirement. Mu Cheng felt a little funny when he heard her emotion.
"Aunt Mu, this is also the pursuit of life, I have lived in the environment of the Gu family and the Xu family since I was a child, I knew at that time that I can be regarded as a person living at the top of the pyramid, and the life I live every day is what others want to pursue all their lives, and it may not be possible to reach it in a lifetime. β
"I don't have any material things to pursue, I just want to make my heart richer and more stable. Gu Yanran looked at the sky and sighed: "Ordinary people want to live a pyramid life, and the rich and noble people want to live a plain life, which is relative, but they are all our life pursuits." β
"Then what do you choose Wen Yanzhi?" Mu Cheng looked at her, "Is it because you think he is suitable? You are all people at the top of the pyramid, what if you are just a child of an ordinary family, or if he is just a child of an ordinary family?"
Gu Yanran shook his head, "It's just because it's him, no matter what our identity is, I will choose to fight for him." She looked at this Mu Cheng and smiled, "Aunt Mu, but the assumptions are not true, I am still a child of the Xu family, and he is still a member of the Wen family, so this cannot be changed." β
There was a determined glint in her eyes: "A hypothesis is a hypothesis because it is not true. β
(End of chapter)